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    The document outlines the various roles of a community health nurse, which include clinician, educator, advocate, manager, collaborator, leader, and researcher. As a clinician, the nurse acts as a care provider focusing on holism, health promotion, and expanding skills. As an educator, the nurse serves as a health teacher to educate the community. As an advocate, the nurse pleads for clients' rights and helps them gain independence. As a manager, the nurse plans, organizes, leads, controls, and evaluates client care and programs. The nurse also collaborates with other professionals, acts as a leader in the community, and participates in research.

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    Roles of Community Health

    Nurse

    Presented By
    Mr. Ajith K K
    Asst. Professor
    College Of Nursing Kishtwar
    Roles of Community Health Nurses

    1. Clinician
    2. Educator
    3. Advocate
    4. Manager
    5. Collaborator
    6. Leader
    7. Researcher
    Clinician Role
    • Care provider: The nurse ensures that health services
    are not only provided to individuals and families but
    also provided to groups and populations.
    • The clinician role has emphasis on holism, health
    promotion and skill expansion
    Holistic practice = considering the broad range of
    interacting needs that affect the “collective health”
    of the client as a larger system (Patterson 1998)
    Clinician Role (Continued)
    • A major clinician role is focusing on promoting wellness.
    • Nursing service includes seeking out clients at risk for
    poor health to offer preventive and health promoting
    services rather than waiting for them to come for help
    after problems arise.
    Examples:
    • Employees of a business are helped to live healthier and
    happier lives by working with a group who wants to quit
    smoking
    Clinician Role (Continued)

    Examples:

    • Educating fathers – to – be about fathering skills.


    • Assist several families with terminally ill patients
    to gain strengths through a support system of
    accepting death and the dying process.
    Examples at the UNRWA clinics &
    Schools
    • Immunization of infants and pre-schoolers
    • Family planning programs
    • Cholesterol screening
    • Prevention of behavioural problems in adolescents
    • Expanded skills in observation, listening,
    communication and counseling are integral to your
    role as a CHN with emphasis on psychological and
    socio-cultural factors
    Educator Role
    • Being a health teacher is one of the main role of a
    CHN.
    • It is an important role because:
    – Community clients are NOT usually acutely ill and
    can absorb and act on health information.
    – A wider audience can be reached leading to a
    community-wide impact.
    – The public has a higher level of health consciousness.
    – Client self-education is facilitated by the nurse. Based
    on the concept of self-care, clients are encouraged to
    use appropriate health resources.
    Advocate Role
    • Based on clients’ rights: Every patient or client has the
    right to receive just, equal, and humane treatment.
    Why Advocacy?
    • Current health care system offers de-personalised and
    fragmented services. Many clients who are poor and
    disadvantaged are frustrated and the nurse becomes an
    advocate for clients pleading their cause and acting on
    their behalf
    Goals of advocacy:
    1. Help clients gain more independence and self-
    determination
    2. Make the system more responsive and relevant to the
    needs of clients
    Characteristic Actions of an
    Advocate

    1. Being assertive
    2. Taking risks
    3. Communicating and negotiating well
    4. Identifying resources and obtaining results
    Manager Role
    • Nurse directs and administers care to meet goals by:
    1. Assessing client needs
    2. Planning and organising to meet those needs
    3. Directing and leading to achieve results
    4. Controlling and evaluating the progress to make
    sure that the results are met
    Manager Role (Cont..)
    • Nurse oversees client care as:
    1. A case manager
    2. Supervising ancillary staff
    3. Managing caseloads
    4. Running clinics
    5. Conducting community health needs assessment
    projects
    Nurse as Planner

    • Sets the goals for the organization.


    • Sets the direction.
    • Determines the means (strategies) to achieve
    them.
    • It includes defining goals and objectives.
    • It may be strategic ( long-term broader goals)
    Nurse as Organiser
    • Designing a structure for people + tasks to function to
    reach the desired objectives
    • It includes assignments and scheduling

    It includes:
    1. Deciding what tasks to be done
    2. Who will do them
    3. How to group the tasks
    4. Who reports to whom
    5. Where decisions will be made (Robbins 1997)
    Nurse as Organiser (Cont..)

    Questions to be addressed by the organiser


    1. Is the clinic, program providing the needed
    services?
    2. Are the clients satisfied?
    3. Are the services cost-effective?
    Nurse as Leader
    • The nurse directs, influences, or persuades others to make
    change to positively influence people’s health.
    • Includes persuading and motivating people, directing
    activities, effective two-way communication, resolving
    conflicts and coordinating the plan
    • Coordination: Bringing people and activities together to
    function in harmony to achieve desired objectives
    Nurse as Controller and Evaluator
    • Controller: Monitors the plan and ensures that it
    stays on course.
    – Sometimes plans do not proceed as intended
    and need to be adjusted
    – Monitoring, comparing and adjusting are
    activities of controlling
    – Comparing performance and outcomes against
    set goals and standards = Evaluator role
    Management Behaviours
    1. Decision-making:
    – Entrepreneur (Initiating new projects)
    – Disturbance handler (conflicts among staff, between
    staff and clients, between clients)
    – Resource allocator (the distribution and use of human,
    physical and financial resources)
    – Negotiator (with higher levels of administration, other
    agencies)
    Management Behaviours
    1. Transferring of information
    – Monitor
    – Information disseminator
    – Spokesperson

    2. Engaging in interpersonal relationships


    – Figurehead
    – Leader and Liaison
    Management Skills
    1. Human: ability to understand, communicate, motivate,
    delegate and work with people. They are essential to be
    successful in your role as a manager

    2. Conceptual: The mental abilities to analyse and


    interpret abstract ideas to understand and diagnose
    situations

    3. Technical: Apply special management-related


    knowledge and expertise for e.g. computerised
    management information system
    Collaborator Role
    • Means working jointly with others on a common project
    to cooperate as partners
    It includes:
    – Clients
    – Other nurses and physicians
    – Teachers and health educators
    – Social workers
    – Physical therapists
    – Nutritionists
    – Psychologists
    – Epidemiologists and Biostatisticians
    – Attorneys
    – Secretaries
    – City Planners and legislators
    Researcher Role
    • Systematic investigation, collection, and
    analysis of data for solving problems and
    improving community health practice
    • This role is at several levels:
    – Agency and organisational studies for job
    satisfaction among public health nurses
    – Some CHN participate in more
    collaborative research with other health
    professionals
    The Research Process
    1. Identify an area of interest
    2. Specify the research question or statement
    3. Review the literature
    4. Identify a conceptual framework
    5. Select a research design
    6. Collect and analyse data
    7. Interpret the results
    8. Communicate the findings
    Settings for CHN Practice
    1. Homes
    2. Community health centres
    3. Schools
    4. Occupational health settings (business and
    industry)
    5. Residential institutions: Older age residences
    6. Parishes or charitable mosques related
    organisations
    7. Community at large
    THANK
    YOU

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